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Press Release:  August 27, 2018 Schumer: Funding Increase For CDC To Fight Lyme Disease Will Help Protect Against Tick-Borne Illnesses U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced that the U.S. Senate has passed his amendment to the upcoming Health and Human... Read More »

The Rotary Club of Glens Falls, New York, has bestowed the Citizen of the Year award to Holly Ahern and Christina Fisk. The women are co-founders of the Lyme Action Network, a nationally recognized advocacy group. Ahern is an award-winning professor of microbiology at SUNY... Read More »

NBC News, August 15, 2018: by Maggie Fox A new kind of tick is causing an epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico, and it’s threatening to spread to the U.S., researchers said Wednesday. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is already dangerous, and the new carrier is more... Read More »

Center for Public Integrity, August 6, 2018 by Kristen Lombardi and Fatima Bhojani The CDC says rising temperatures are partly to blame for the tripling of mosquito-, tick- and flea-borne illnesses from 2004 to 2016, but Maine’s governor, a climate skeptic, is tying health... Read More »

August 07, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Lyme ImmunoBlots (IgM and IgG) represents quantum leap in test performance over the traditional B. burgdorferi Western blots. PALO ALTO, Calif.—The Division of Laboratories of the Department of Health of the State of New York... Read More »

The New York Times, August 6, 2018 by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. For the first time in 50 years, a new tick species has arrived in the United States — one that in its Asian home range carries fearsome diseases. The Asian long-horned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, is spreading... Read More »

Mother Jones, August 6, 2018: by Kristen Lombardi and Fatima Bhojani Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before spring. They noticed the ticks—which look... Read More »

By Elizabeth Maloney, MD A recent article in the Minnesota Star-Tribune discussed one legislator’s struggle with Lyme disease (“Retiring legislator continues to serve by telling his story.” And while coverage of tick-borne diseases is welcome, it is discouraging to know that this... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will present its first report to Congress in December 2018. The federal panel has completed its draft report, which now goes to various government agencies for review. Anything more than copy edits will come back to the Working Group and... Read More »